Museum Edith Piaf (Musee Edith Piaf) description and photos - France: Paris (Topic)

Musee Edith Piaf description and photos - France: Paris. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is Musee Edith Piaf.

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The Edith Piaf Museum is not an ordinary one. This is not a state or municipal museum, which seems incredible: Edith Piaf was the flesh of Paris and probably deserved to be remembered by Paris. People adored her; when the great singer died, forty thousand people accompanied the funeral procession, blocking traffic, and one hundred thousand gathered in the cemetery. But there is no city museum, but there is a private one, which was founded by Bernard Marshua, a longtime admirer of the singer and head of the Friends of Piaf association.

Marshua met Edith Piaf in 1958. He was sixteen, and Piaf was forty-three, and she had five years to live. For these five years, Marshua has been around as a devoted fan. After the death of Piaf, he bought the apartment on the rue Crespin du Gast, in which the singer lived in 1933, collected her personal belongings (he kept something, her friends and family gave something) and opened a museum in 1977.

The museum occupies two rooms in the apartment where Marshua lives constantly. You can't just come - you need to call in advance, agree on a certain time and get the code number on the door to the entrance. The visitor goes up to the fourth floor (there is no elevator), he is met by Marshua and taken to the museum. There are two possibilities: to hear the owner's explanations (but only in French) or alone to the accompaniment of Edith Piaf's songs to examine the exhibits for thirty minutes.

Life-size image of Piaf cut out of cardboard - 1 m 47 cm, shoes 33 size, concert dress (black, she performed only in black), a huge toy bear, presented by her last husband Theo Lambukas, boxing gloves of Marcel Serdan, the deceased beloved of the singer, there are a lot of her portraits, letters, handbags, cosmetics, jewelry ... Here, an intimate and strange atmosphere is rare for museums - it must be because the apartment is residential. You can buy books about Piaf, her notes, postcards, photographs, bookmarks. Visiting the museum is free, but donations are welcome at the exit.

Fans of the singer can also visit her grave in the Pere Lachaise cemetery and the monument in Place Edith Piaf. The monument by Lisbeth Delisle was opened in 2003, on the fortieth anniversary of the death of Piaf, it was erected near the Tenon hospital, where Edith was born.

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